“No, this is our mission. Hound already knows where he’s at. We can go in tonight, get him and bring him back here.”
Tiny still didn’t look convinced. “What about Midas?”
Liam tried to hide his wince but failed. “Midas has his own objective right now.”
“He’s our team leader. He has just as much right to finish this mission as we do.”
Tiny was right. Liam had seen a golden opportunityto end this thing once and for all and hadn’t cared about anything else. Liam didn’t want to call him, but it looked like the conversation couldn’t be avoided. “I’ll call him right now.”
He was pulling out his cell phone from his pocket when Hound’s voice stopped him. “You might want to hold off on that call for a minute. We have a problem.”
Liam put his phone in his pocket and walked overto Hound who was staring at his computer screen. “What sort of problem?”
“Commander Brady was killed.”
Liam reared back as if punched. “What? When?”
“An hour ago. Alejandro and his men just walked into the hospital and strangled the commander.”
“How could he know where Brady was being kept?”
“I don’t know. Alejandro could have more than just Brady on his payroll.” Liam cursed. All hisplans were going to shit. This would no longer be a simple in and out mission. Alejandro was here in town. But where? Commander Brady had been killed an hour ago. Alejandro could be anywhere.
“What about the security team? There were dozens of MP’s watching him.” Liam was still in disbelief that Alejandro and his men got through the MP’s and out without anyone raising an alarm.
“All dead.”
“Fuck,” Liam growled and rubbed the back of his neck. Could nothing go right anymore?
“It’s time to warn Midas.” Tiny told him. It wasn’t anything Liam wasn’t figuring out for himself. But damn he didn’t want to have to call Midas. Hannah hadn’t seen her family since before her capture. Midas had agreed to take her home in return for her help with ending Alejandro’s terror. They hadn’t beengone long but it looked their trip was about to be cut off short.
Liam didn’t want to, but he knew he needed to. Hound pulled out his phone this time and made the call.
“What’s up, Brother?” Midas asked without preamble. He would know Hound wouldn’t be calling just to shoot the shit.
“Commander Brady is dead. Killed in the hospital,” Hound said just as briskly.
“What? How?”Benaskedin shock. “He was surrounded by guards.”
“All the guards were killed, and the Commander was strangled to death. It’s a warning Midas.”
“From who?”
“Alejandro. Security footage shows a man we believe to be him, and a large army, in the hospital.”
Ben answered slowly.“He knew the commander was going to talk and so he silenced him a day before he was supposed to be interrogated. Convenient.”
“He might have more spies in the area. Higher than the ex-commander.”
“Yeah, but who?”
“That’s the million-dollar question.”
“I want to keep Hannah up here but I have a feeling she’s going to want to be there to see the end of things.”
“Good luck, one more thing, Alejandro looks like he’s setting up shop down here in California.”
“I’ll head back tomorrow, and we’ll take the son of abitch out for good.”
